It seems our (pressurised) hot water tank has sprung a leak. The plumber can get a direct replacement early next week, and install it mid-week. However, the tank is mounted so near the floor I've only got about 8mm to insert something underneath to catch the water, and about a 12mm drop to the floor...

By all means watch the Rebuild films if you're prepared to take them on their own terms. But if you will only consider them as a remake of the series you are likely to get very annoyed when you come to the aspects of them which are not.

Strike that; I resized the image smaller still so the correction could reach the required amount in one hit, which produced a much more convincing result, which certainly to my eye hints at an Adam, or maybe two (see also two figures in upper part of screen?): https://cassland.org/images/EG/MotionCo...

That's not out of focus, it's motion blur. I have an old program which attempts to correct motion blur (e.g. for forensic usage). Unfortunately, the distance of the motion is more than the program can be set to, but I have applied it twice in succession to the smaller image. I think the motion was u...

The download link is on this page (my first search didn't find it, so I figure it's useful to put it here). There doesn't seem to be any way to correct its time zone. Also, on my screen (running Windows), which is much bigger than the specified size, it screws up the sizes of windows open when it ac...

Rant 1: Young people... <shrug> Rant 2: Old people... <shrug> Rant 3: Facebook keeps sending me friend suggestions for people I have no mutual friends with or people that I hate. Facebook wants me to be friends with my ex-wife. Still, they did once get me back in contact with someone I'd met 30 yea...

I remember this from the textbook for my high school health class, though I don't think they showed all the pictures. It's from a man who was diagnosed with schizophrenia asked to draw pictures of cats as he got worse. Not quite. Those pictures are by Louis Wain , when he was in a lunatic a...

A couple of days ago I went to this concert . On the way back in the bus I was watching RahXephon on my phone. As we approached Oxford, the two students sitting next to me hesitantly asked what I was watching. When I told them they were duly surprised that I could know about anime, let alone one the...